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It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get ...more

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It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak...more

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And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get ...more

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To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

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There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and...more

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A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add u...more

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he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in hi...more

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Some of my favorite songs: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Neil Young; 'Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me' by the Smiths; 'Call Me' by A...more

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What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those ...more

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A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You ...more

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A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionna...more

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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them o...more

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The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice...more

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Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out...more

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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unha...more